>> with all due respect to senator rand paul, this is a ridiculous argument. here he is blaming people who are out of work through no fault of their own, who are still looking for work and that's a condition of continuing to receive unemployment compensation. and we still have very high unemployment rates in the country, historically speaking. >> but the 7%, which was good news, i mean and being celebrated, does that make it tougher for your side of the argument? >> well, not if you look at the facts. and the facts, chris, are that the number of long-term unemployed has not changed and we just had very powerful testimony last week and some of them had lost their jobs because of the very deep across the board sequester cuts. they had a stack two feet high of applications they had submitted for jobs and hadn't gotten a job yet and so for rand paul to say, you know, we're going to really do you a favor. we're going to cut off the little compensation that you've got for your family and that's going to do you good is absurd and demeaning. in addition, in addition t